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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

IdeaScale

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. In this case, a NASA team member was hoping for some ideas on how to better manage the collection of liquid samples. Schedule now !

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Example COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Campaigns

IdeaScale

We were heartened, also, to see that many of our customers and partners are taking this moment to look to their network for solutions and novel responses by launching COVID-19 crowdsourcing campaigns. Potential Prompts: How have you adapted your home environment to make it more comfortable, fun, and manageable?

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. We can address these concerns head-on by setting and managing expectations. Recognize that ideas can go down different tracks. .

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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Are You Working on the Right Things? The Power of Collaborative Channels

Planview

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh, Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels.

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OUTSIDE-IN [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

We spoke to manufacturers of branded frozen meals, but also to retailers who managed their own in-house brand of frozen meals – but all from outside our client’s base geography.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation: 4 Steps to Success

Planview

Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Using a crowdsourcing platform will often remove the majority of the legwork.”. Crowdsourcing Innovation = Diverse Ideas and Predictable Outcomes. Here’s what we learned. Incremental is Okay.